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Submitted by courtnee 11.03.09 - 11:41 pm
I gave notice to Qliance recently, after a few weeks of soul searching and objective weighing of the pros and cons of spending more time in a job that isn’t directed toward my long term goals. As a company Qliance has been very good to me, I have favorable associations and good memories. I will happily continue to recommend Qliance to my friends, family, or anyone else who will listen for that matter. I hope to cross paths with them again in the future.
I’m not planning to seek out another part time day-job. This means I’m on my own for now. If you’ve been thinking about getting massages, recommending me to a friend or commissioning art, I would really appreciate any support you can send my way. And if you’ve been worked on by me, every Yelp review counts.
I am also at the end of my tenure at The Pink Door, and am looking for another consistent performance gig. I really enjoyed performing in the restaurant, close with people and having the opportunity to interact and get to know my audience, so I’d love to find or create something similar. Suggestions and introductions appreciated.
Also – 30 is good.
Submitted by courtnee 10.22.09 - 7:09 am
I am on the weirdest schedule now. My feet are puffy and sore. My face is angry from 12+ hours in makeup for days on end. I need about 4 massages to work this weirdness out, and I keep tricking out my jaw when I yawn. I have about 17 projects to catch up on and no end in sight to the onslaught of new ones. Ah, the glamorous life.
The super-secret shoot I’ve been working on since Sunday was worth it, however. Even the day I plowed through a 5:30am call, 12 production hours and high tailed it to Pink Door to do my 4 aerial sets immediately thereafter. The best part I reckon are the loads of amazing, lovely and talented people I’ve added to my list of acquaintances. That tends to be a heartening occurrence for me. The food was a close second. They fed us very well, and there is a lot to be said for taking care of your people like that.
I’m listening to Cat Power and prepping for the days ahead, so scheduled and packed I’m not really sure how I’m planning to get it all done and stay standing. I always do somehow, and often get it all done and more, so I’ll just trust that I know what I’m doing somewhere and press on. It was nice to go filterless for a while on a project I wasn’t in charge of – now, though, it’s back to the measured responses of an Executive Director. I think that takes the most work of all, some days.
I’m almost 30.
Take care of you’s, people.
Submitted by courtnee 08.25.09 - 11:58 am
Been super into sewing lately. I’ve had a machine for quite a few years but rarely used it. In the last two weeks I’ve broken all 4 of the sewing needles I had laying around here, and spent countless hours/dollars on projects. Mostly costumes. And there’s a fair bit more to go in that department.
Here’s a picture of the long brainstormed light aerial costume, allbeit a terrible one with some really bad photoshop on the background. This is more of a perchy costume, it has little bits on it that would get mangled pretty easily. The bodice is almost completely converted, and upside down. My friend Sara Sparrow made me the shorts from a shirt I had, and the cute veil. I’m finishing up my dark version but am having issues with the bodice collapsing, so no pictures yet. If you want to see that one, come to the Pink Door when I’m performing. :)
Also got some dread action going on. One of my coworkers wants dreads, and ordered some from me just before I moved. This friday is the install. Woo!Need about 10 more dark ones and it’ll be done.
In other news – I have a real bed again! Like, with a head/foot board and everything. The last time I had more than a frame, I was 6, and I’ve only had a mattress for about 2 years now, so I could prop the bed up to set up a massage table. I’m enjoying nesting.
Hm. both of these pictures are pretty awful quality. I wonder if my lens is dirty or something..
Submitted by courtnee 06.03.09 - 1:26 pm
Hm. Well then.
Apparently, my E:\ drive was not actually located on my external hard drive, as I have assumed. Rather, it was on the drive I partitioned and re-installed XP on last night.
My E:\ drive was the datastore which has housed all my source files for my music, images, and video projects for the last two years. A large fraction of the good pictures I’ve taken are on neevita, though the original high quality images of my self photography are now gone.
As for the music and video – I don’t know how much I care to recall at this particular moment how very little of it ever ventured from my drive. I’m sure it will come up over time as I think about things I want and discover they are gone.
Seems rather silly, that the data I’ve been worried about losing if my drives ever failed (or I wiped them out), are the 150 gigs of replacable mp3’s I have.
I suppose one of the fortunate aspects of this, aside from having a clean slate which I do rather enjoy, is how the experience has shown me what kind of relationship I’ve developed with my artwork.
Bummer. Thankfully, I will make more.
Additionally, my potential moving costs now include an external terabyte, which I’ve been putting off for a day too long it seems, to back up what I have left and hopefully prevent this from happening again any time soon. I’m offering all paintings currently for sale at a 25% discount, INCLUDING COMMISSIONS. http://neevita.net/artist/art-for-sale
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